It also has a lot of other good attributes like hardwood floor, nice sun room outside, and small office set up.

@Mindy Jensen is the population explosion attributed to the legalization of Marijuana or other factors... in your opinion? 

In addition, if you are self-employed with no full-time employees you may wish to consider opening a Solo 401k instead of a self-directed IRA as it has several advantages over an IRA LLC such as much higher contribution limits, direct checkbook control (i.e. no need to have the account at a specialty trust company), ability to take a 401k loan, exclusion from unrelated debt finance income tax with respect to investment in real estate acquired with non-recourse financing, etc.In addition, please note if you purchase debt-financed real estate with your IRA, unrelated debt finance income tax should apply to the income attributable to debt-financed real estate held by your IRA.

Frankly, my ideal niche would be mid-size multi-family for buy/hold, but because of where I think his complementary attributes lie, I think we may have to start with SFR's or 2/3/4's for either flip or BRRR's. 

But I still have sooooooo much to learn and I learn everyday, a lot attributed to BP podcasts and forums I read and listen to and learn new terminologies.

I've been fortunate to be a part of BP's community and attribute much of my success to BP.

You have the mindset, you have the drive, you'll need to find someone with similar attributes who is ALREADY doing or has already done what you want to do. 

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If we attribute a 4% return to the $90,000 equity that works out to $300/month reducing his money available for maintenance to $250/month.

I would ideally want one that has some of the following attributes. - No monthly fees (or ways to avoid them).- Open outside of normal business hours (7am-7pm, Saturdays, etc)- Local, I would love to develop a great relationship with them as I grow my business.